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発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˌkɒm.plɪˈkeɪ.ʃən/
• (General American) IPA: /ˌkɑm.pləˈkeɪ.ʃən/, /ˌkɑm.plɪˈkeɪ.ʃən/
• 韻: -eɪʃən
• ハイフネーション: com‧pli‧ca‧tion
• 韻: -eɪʃən

名詞

complication (countable and uncountable, plural complications)

1. The act or process of complicating.
2. The state of being complicated; intricate or confused relation of parts; complexity.
3. A person who doesn't fit in with the main scheme of things; an interloper.
4. (medicine) A disease or diseases, or adventitious circumstances or conditions, coexistent with and modifying a primary disease, but not necessarily connected with it.

   Coordinate terms: sequela, comorbidity

5. (horology) A feature beyond basic time display in a timepiece.

   Hypernym: bells and whistles

   • 2013, Stacy Perman, A Grand Complication: The Race to Build the World's Most Legendary Watch, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 35:

     Obsessed, he was after a watch that contained the greatest number of complications in the boldest combinations in the smallest space imaginable.

   • 2023 May 28, Brian Ng, “Is one of these students the next Breguet?”, in FT Weekend, HTSI, page 43:

     In their final year, each student must make their own watch with a complication—from a tourbillon to a chiming mode to having a date display.

6. (obsolete) A twisting or intertwining.
   • 1646, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica:

     the snaky complication in the Caduceus or rod of Hermes.

派生語

Further reading

• complication (medicine) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• complication (horology) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• “complication”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “complication”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

アナグラム

• accomplition